Xylorimba in Hollywood Film Music and Recordings
Xylorimba has been used in a number of recordings, in the Vaudeville era and the time following. Studio percussion legend Emil Richards, used xylorimba in numerous recordings and film soundtracks, for example. It was his first instrument (in his now infamous Emil Richards Collection). He bought the xylorimba in 1960 from a percussionist who was on-staff at Paramount Pictures but upon retirement; this instrument had been used in the vaudeville era, when musicians would play as a soloist, running up and down this very large, 5-octave instrument. The xylorimba’s prodigious size and range (C3-C8) allows for three musicians playing on it simultaneously with reasonable comfort. In the studio, Emil would sometimes enhance xylophone parts by playing the passages even higher on the xylorimba; because the instruments are similar in timbre, using xylorimba kept the continuity of sound. A few of numerous recordings Emil’s xylorimba can be heard on include The Beach Boys, the Everly Brothers, Jan and Dean, and Bernie Matteson.
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